Life at the Limits: Organisms in Extreme Environments

By D. Wharton. 2002

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The thermal limits to life on Earth (2014, background): “To date these results have not been replicated, and while Wharton (2002) has speculated that the actual thermal limit for microbial growth may be as high as 150 °C, the currently accepted upper limit for microbial growth is 122 °C.”
Functional and spatial pressures on terrestrial vegetation in Antarctica forced by global warming (2011, background): “The presence or absence of a species will depend on its own particular limits or ‘life box’ (Wharton 2002), which might be imposed through direct effects on individual metabolic processes or indirectly through the boundaries to the strategy adopted by the organism.”